Friday, March 26, 2010

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"When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt"


"We go where our vision is"


When opportunity knocks at the door, we will not recognize it if we keep looking backwards-


"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind” Dr. Zeus


My favorite quote is " The greatest sermons are never spoken".

Meaning - it is not what we say -: but how we live.


"We are all ignorant. Just each of us in different subjects." W. Rogers


My favorite quote is by Warren G. Bennis which reads “Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.” After reviewing many of academic models on leadership and management; this quote captures the main essence and deference between the two.


"Its always good to know what people expect from you, then of course you can surprise them by giving more"


'Today is the first day of the rest of your life', Its never too late to make a beginning, one can start whenever one feels the time is right.


"Success does not depend on making important decisions quick, it depends on the quick action taken on important decisions"


"Majority rule only works if you also are considering individual rights, because you can't have 5 wolves and 1 sheep vote on what to have for dinner."
Larry Flynt



"Don't ASSUME (ass-u-me), cause it makes an ASS out of U and ME" (please excuse the language)

--> heard this years ago in one of the negotiation training classes... sometimes we just assume things without really understanding what the other person really wanted to say. This often leads to misunderstandings - therefore better ask one more time instead of just assuming things...


"Self-trust is the first secret of success." ---- This is my favorite because lack of self trust often holds us back when it comes to taking risks. Many of these risks and failures could lead us to some of our greatest success stories.


My favorite is "when is the last time you did something for the first time."

I am not sure who to attribute it to as I have heard it from numerous sources. To me it speaks to getting out of your rut and trying something new. You can't change without change!


“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.


My favorite, "If it's to be, it's up to me".


The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be. ~Katherine Mansfield~


“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." George Bernard Shaw


"The entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." John Andrew Holmes


"We All Get What We Tolerate."

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly" - Richard Bach

It tells me that change is:
* Inevitable, part of life
* Painful and mostly leads to a situation where you may even lose your old identity
but at the same time:
* It is rewarding and gives you wings and
* Opens the door for a beautiful world

The choice is between hanging on to the past and ruing what's lost or bracing for the road ahead and profiting from it. And the decision is purely one's own and has to come from within!

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